ABSTRACT: Salvia officinalis- extracts obtain from herb subjected to convective drying at 40 degrees. Exctract obtained by maceration in eighty percent of methanol.
Project description:Salvia officinalis- extracts obtain from herb subjected to convective drying at 40 degrees. Exctract obtained by maceration in eighty percent of methanol.
Project description:This is a study to characterize gene expression profiles in stored Russet Burbank potato tubers. Tubers were harvested from commercial fields in the central sands region of Wisconsin in the fall of 2006. The tubers were put into storage at 55 degrees F for preconditioning and wound healing. Shortly after the temperature of the storage bin began to decrease, uniform, healthy tubers were selected for use in this microarray analysis. Tubers were at 53.6 degrees F at this time, and pieces of starch-storing tissue were collected for use as the reference sample. Other tubers were moved to temperature-controlled lockers and these were cooled gradually to either 48 or 40 degrees F following industry standard procedures. The expectation was that tubers held at 48 degrees would not have a significant accumulation of glucose and fructose, but that tubers cooled to 40 degrees would undergo low temperature sweetening and accumulate glucose and fructose to a degree that is unsuitable for processing. Three weeks later, when the locker temperatures were 48 degrees F and 41.5 degrees F, tissue samples were collected for RNA analysis. After another three weeks, samples were collected from tubers at 48 degrees F and 40 degrees F. At that time some tubers were moved from the 48 degree locker to the 40 degree locker in order to see if gene expression changes observed as a result of gradual cooling are similar to those that occur following a sudden decrease in temperature. Three weeks later, samples were collected from tubers held at 48 degrees F, tubers held at 40 degrees F, and from the tubers that were moved from 48 to 40 degrees F. At this time another set of tubers was transferred from 48 degrees to 40 degrees. Three weeks later the last samples were harvested from tubers held at 48 degrees F, from tubers held at 48 degrees F and from tubers that were transferred three weeks prior from 48 to 40 degrees. RNA was isolated from tissue extracted from three tubers. Keywords: Reference design
Project description:To obtain a global view of the response of S. flexneri at the expression level induced by temperature up-shift, we compared the expression profiles of log-phase and stationary-phase cells grown at 30 degrees and 37 degrees Celsius.
Project description:Analysis of microRNA expression at 37 and 40 degrees shows a novel class of microRNAs that regulate fever. Arrays of gene expression at 37 and 40 of THP-1 derived macrophages as well as a thermomiR knockdown experiment.
Project description:In this data set we investigate dynamic differences in the transcriptome between 37 and 40 degrees C after treatment with TNFalpha. In the continuous temperature experiments, cells were grown at 37 degrees C and were then left at 37 degrees C, or transferred to 40 degrees C, for 1hour after which they (at time 0) were stimulated with 10 ng/ml of TNFα . Measurements were taken at 0, 30, 130, 230 and 430 minutes. In the 'switch' experiment, cells were grown the same way but the temperature of the incubator was turned up to 40 degrees C after 200 minutes. Measurements were taken at 230 and 430 minutes.
Project description:mzML and mzIdentML are commonly used, powerful tools for representing mass spectrometry data and derived identification information. These formats are complex, requiring non-trivial logic to translate data into the appropriate representation. Most published implementations are tightly coupled to data structures. The most complete implementations are written in compiled languages that cannot expose the complete flexibility of the implementation to external programs or bindings. To our knowledge, there are no complete implementations for mzML or mzIdentML available to scripting languages like Python or R. We present psims, a library written in Python for writing mzML and mzIdentML. The library allows writing either XML format using built-in Python data structures. It includes a controlled vocabulary resolution system to simplify the encoding process and an identity tracking system to manage entity relationships. The source code is available at https://github.com/mobiusklein/psims, and through the Python Package Index as psims, licensed under the Apache 2 common license.
Project description:Samples for metabolomic analysis were prepared as follows. A 200 uL aliquot of bacterial cultures or control medium (prepared, as described in the above section) was mixed with 800 uL of 99.5 percent ethanol (Fisher Scientific) and subjected to 3 rounds of freeze thaw cycles: 10 minutes at -80C, 8 minutes at room temperature. Next, samples were spun down for 10 minutes at 16,000g, 4C to remove cell debris, and supernatants were transferred to new tubes. Ethanol supernatants were stored at -80C until further extraction. Each ethanol extraction was performed in two technical duplicates.
The solid phase extraction (SPE) of the ethanol extracts was performed with the Oasis HLB 96-well plate (30 mg Sorbent per Well, 30 um Particle Size) (Waters Corporation) set up with a vacuum pump manifold. Each well of the plate was washed with 700 uL of 100 percent HPLC-grade methanol and equilibrated with 700 uL of HPLC-grade water. Next, 400 uL of ethanol extracts were added to the wells and allowed to slowly elute. Wells were next washed with 800 uL of 5 percent methanol in water. Metabolites from bacterial cultures or control media were eluted with 200 uL of 100 percent methanol. Vacuum up to 20 psi was applied for the wells that did not elute within one hour. The collected eluted metabolites were stored at -20 until the HPLC-MS analysis. The HPLC-MS analysis of extracted metabolites was performed with the use of a Dionex UltiMate 3000 UHPLC system (Fisher Scientific) coupled to a Bruker impact HD quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer (Bruker). The chromatographic separation was performed on a Kinetex C18 1.7 um, 100A UHPLC column (50 mm x 2.1 mm) (Phenomenex), held at 40C during analysis. 5 uL of each sample was injected. Mobile phase A was water, 0.1 percent v:v formic acid, and mobile phase B was acetonitrile, 0.1 percent v:v formic acid. The solvent gradient table was set as follows: 2 percent B, increased to 10 percent B over 0.2 min, then to 100 percent B at 12 min, held at 100 percent B for 1.5 min, decreased back to 2 percent B in 0.5 min, followed by washout cycle and equilibration; total analysis time of 15 min. The scanned m/z range was 80-2000 Th; capillary voltage 4,500 V; nebulizer gas pressure 2 bar, drying gas flow rate 9 l min-1 and temperature 200C. The full MS scan was followed by a tandem mass spectrometry fragmentation of the seven most abundant ions within the spectrum. For tandem mass spectrometry, the collision cell collision energy was set at 3 eV and the collision energy was stepped 50 percent, 75 percent, 150 percent, and 200 percent. The scan rate was 3 Hz. A HP-921 lock mass compound was infused during the analysis for post processing mass correction.
Project description:Intervention1: Biopsy: The biopsy tissue will be processed to obtain the primary cell line. In the next stage of the study, the cultured primary cell line will be subjected to
various chemotherapeutic agents in different concentrations and studied using real
time cell analyzer for 5 days to obtain IC50 values. Both the primary cells and
biopsy sample will be subjected to microarray, qPCR and proteomics.
Control Intervention1: Nil: Nil
Primary outcome(s): To validate methodology to establish primary tumor cell line from biopsy samples of
cancer patients like breast cancer, NSCLC, Head & Neck, Colorectal.Timepoint: Baseline
Project description:Transcriptome profiles of control Lactobacillus plantarum WCFS1 cells were compared with ctsR, hrcA, and ctsR-hrcA deletion mutants grown in MRS media at 28 and 40 degrees Celcius.
Project description:Introduction: The application of single-cell RNA sequencing has greatly improved our under-standing of various cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in physiological and pathophysi-ological processes. However, obtaining living cells for this technique can be difficult under certain conditions. To solve this problem, the methanol fixation method appeared as a promising alternative for routine clinical use. Materials and Methods: In this study, we selected two AML samples that had been fixed in methanol for 12–18 months. Once the cells were rehydrated, these samples were subjected to single-cell RNA sequencing. We then compared the results obtained from these samples with those obtained from the same samples cryopreserved in DMSO. Results: We used a previously validated methanol fixation protocol to perform scRNA-seq on DMSO cryopreserved cells and cells fixed in methanol for more than one year. Preliminary results show that methanol fixation induces some genetic and transcriptional modification compared with DMSO cryopreservation but remains a valuable method for single-cell analysis of primary human leukemia cells. Conclusions: The initial findings from this study highlight certain resemblances in methanol fixation over a 12-month period and cryopreservation with DMSO, along with associated transcriptional level modifications. However, we observed genetic degradation in the fixation condition when extending beyond one year. Despite certain study limitations, it is evident that short-term methanol fixation can be effec-tively used for leukemia blast samples. Its ease of implementation holds the potential to simplify the integration of this technique into routine clinical practice.